 Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman, but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.  The Conduct of Life - Page 12by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2003 - 596 pages
...somebody shall knock at his door, and leave a half-dollar. But Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...respect no persons. The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...somebody shall knock at his door, and leave a half-dollar. But Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...respect no persons. The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...deny the ferocities of nature. In "Fate" he recorded: "But Nature is no sentimentalist,—does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly. . . . The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like... | |
 | Cecelia Tichi - 1994 - 360 pages
...the US to be mindful of the "terror of life," because Nature, warns Emerson, is no sentimentalist. "The world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning...swallows your ship like a grain of dust." The cold "freezes a man like an apple." The "sword" of the climate in New Orleans "cut off men like a massacre."... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
...by shipwreck a bitter memorial in his essay "Fate": "But Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust." In the late 18405 he had ventured, "Put men to death by principles, & they will not grumble"; but it... | |
 | 156 pages
...neither is nature. In spite of our belief in providence, "Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...woman, but swallows your ship like a grain of dust." Diseases, the elements, fortune, and the forces of nature are no respecters of persons: The way of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...sin and evil? Have you tried to cultivate a simple mind? But Nature is no sentimentalist,—does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...respect no persons. The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2004 - 457 pages
...individual and the inexplicable rule of law are illustrated. " Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mmd drowning a, man or a woman ; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. —. The way of Providence... | |
 | John Rodden - 2005 - 266 pages
...the Emerson of passages like this one, from the essay "Fate": Nature is no sentimentalist,—does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...respect no persons. The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 pages
...But when a race has lived its term, it comes no more again. Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. Famine, typhus, frost, war, suicide, and effete races, must be reckoned calculable parts of the system... | |
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